From the Daily News: Tarlochan Bawa a hockey Olympian has passed away at his daughter’s residence at Ambala in Haryana on Thursday [24 April]. He was 85 years old.

Bawa, who was a member of the team under Balbir Singh which went on to win the gold medal in the Olympics, held at London in 1948, had gone to Ambala to visit his daughter where he breathed his last.

He was born on February 12, 1923, at Lahore (Pakistan), he joined the Punjab Police as Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) in 1949 in undivided Punjab and retired in 1981 as the Superintendent of Police (SP) in Haryana.

Bawa captained the Punjab hockey team in 1952 & also led the Indian Hockey team to play Test matches against Japan. He also had the honour of assisting Brig Dalip Singh in the Torch relay from Jawalamukhi to Delhi for the 1960 National Games.

Our condolences to the family of Harry Gerris, a Canadian wrestler who participated in three Olympiads (Mexico 1968, Munich 1972, and Montreal 1976).

Geris also represented Canada at the Pan-American Games, the Commonwealth Games and the World Cup, winning bronze medals at all three events.

Here’s the report about Harry’s death from the Toronto Star:

Harry Geris – a three-time Olympian known as the Gentle Giant of Canadian wrestling – has died at the age of 60 in London, Ont.

His body was found by a construction worker Thursday behind a high school where he was delivering wrestling mats for a tournament.

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AP report:
BOSTON – Cecilia Colledge, an innovative figure skater who was the youngest athlete to compete in the Winter Olympics, has died.

Colledge died at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts, said Ben Wright, vice president of The Skating Club of Boston where Colledge was a teacher for nearly four decades. She was 87.

Colledge was 11 years and 3 months old when she competed for Britain in the 1932 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York.

She won a silver medal at the 1936 Olympics in Germany, second to Sonja Henie. She was world champion in 1937, British champion five times and European champion on three occasions.

Colledge was the first woman to execute a double jump (a salchow) and is credited with inventing the camel and layback spins and the one-foot axel jump.

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